Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 2 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been working mainly on girls ' education really from about eighteen ninety to about nineteen thirty and that 's what has mainly occupied me research wise . |
| 4 | For the province 's future Olympic hopefuls have been brushing up on skills both on and off the sports fields . |
| 5 | To add to Rocco 's woes , firms have been spending less on functions while he had to splash out £160 million on tarting up his properties , which include the Cafe Royal and the Waldorf . |
| 6 | Hundreds of dead dolphins have been washing up on shores in the Mediterranean recently , leaving scientists puzzled as to the cause . |